From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ie0-f178.google.com (mail-ie0-f178.google.com [209.85.223.178]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F05D31A0358 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 2015 02:09:49 +1100 (AEDT) Received: by iebtr6 with SMTP id tr6so12922738ieb.4 for ; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 07:09:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54F9C339.2050409@mojatatu.com> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 10:09:45 -0500 From: Jamal Hadi Salim MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Emil Medve , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Freescale DPAA FMan FLIB(s) References: <1425534351-1065-1-git-send-email-Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com> <54F84CF1.80702@mojatatu.com> <54F85ECB.3070200@Freescale.com> <54F869CE.1080701@mojatatu.com> <54F87096.2070709@Freescale.com> In-Reply-To: <54F87096.2070709@Freescale.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Cc: Igal Liberman List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hi Emil, On 03/05/15 10:04, Emil Medve wrote: > Hello Jamal, > > > On 03/05/2015 08:35 AM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote: >> Hi Emil, >> > > No. All the kernel drivers/code we want to upstream is meant to stand on > its own and be used the "normal" Linux/Unix way > Ok, thanks - that was my only concern. Note there is a lot of offload efforts going on in Linux right now. Take a look at the proceedings from netdev01. You should take advantage of that to shape the direction of your patches. I have suffered at the hands of the sdk for this processor in the past; it is just a bad idea to keep these SDKs around when Linux can express the features sufficiently. Note: The main thing i'd be interested in is when you get to offloading the classifier/scheduler etc. I know you are focussing on just the ethernet level at the moment, cheers, jamal